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Lamak Ornament
Lamak
Standort
In 1935 Helene Potjewijd moved to Vienna. In 1947 she bequeathed her ethnographic collection to the Museum for Ethnography in Vienna. In the collection there are 46 lamak drawings by Walter Spies. This constitutes the largest-preserved collection of lamak drawings by him. In addition to the individual motifs, the collection also contains two drawings of lamak at original scale
Object data
Inv. No.
130909
Collection
Object Name
Pen drawing
Collector
Helene Potjewijd (1872 Meester Cornelis /Java - 1949 Wien)
Artist
Dated
ca. 1935
Accession Date
1946
Culture
Geography
Material
Graphite and ink, washed, on paper
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